[OLPC library] XO 8.2 manual is not in Google search results, perhaps its garbled HTML?

Fri Feb 27 21:44:46 EST 2009

I was looking for info about the power button, so I googled
   site:www.laptop.org  power button

and got no results.  But 
http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/XO_Starting.html should be the first 
result!

It seems Google doesn't index *any* of the 
http://www.laptop.org/8.2.0/manual/ !?

Try searching for any phrase from the manual in quotation marks; I get a 
result from en.flossmanuals.net but never anything from the manuals on 
laptop.org.

Very strange.  There's nothing in robots.txt or the text that seems to 
tell Google "Don't index this manual".  I used the new Google 'Add a 
result' button to add a search result, but I shouldn't have to do this. 
  search.yahoo.com gives better results, it seems to be a Google-only thing.

Maybe it's due to the *extremely* garbled broken HTML of the manual.  I 
mentioned before the duplicated blank <title> tags, now I see there are 
there are two <head> sections as well, and one is outside the <html> 
wrapper.  Given bad enough HTML, automated systems will ignore it.  Anne 
Gentle has indicated better HTML is available, _who_ can get it on the 
web site?*

Also, I noticed that in the few results that Google does return, some 
are in www.laptop.org/teamwiki/ , which gives me a 404.

Cheers,
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